Goggles



c. FISCHER Sept. 13, 1938.

GOGGLES Filed Feb. 25, 1937 INVENTQR 1 Char/e5 flscher ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 13, 193s D UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GOGGLES Charles Fischer, New York, N. Y.

Application February 25, 1937, Serial No. 127,592

1 Claim (Gl. 2-14) The invention relates to improvements in goggles and has particularly to do with that type of goggles used by aviators, drivers of racing automobiles, motor boats or any other apparatus a where a high speed is maintained.

The present invention has to do with the lens members and has for its object to provide goggles having lens members particularly adapted to be used for flying at high altitudes.

' The application is a renewal in part of my abandoned application, Serial No. 822,200, filed July 13, 1932.

Other objects and advantages will become ap- 5 The goggles include a pad I. composed of soft rubber, provided with eye openings ii, and adapted to efficiently and comfortably conform to the face of the wearer. Surrounding the eye openings and secured to the pad are light metal 30 frames i2, suitably hinged together at l3.

Each'of the frames i2, is provided at its outer portion, or at what might be termed the portion remote from the face pad II, with an interior groove i8. This groove is adapted to receive the 5 edges of a, pair of lens members II and i1, and means are providedbetween the lens members for spacing them apart and thus providing an insulated and sealed them. r

various forms of spacing means may be employed'. As illustrated in Fig. 2 a metal ring I. can be used and this ring is covered with rubber II, or any other suitable material having-similar properties. Thus, when the ring, covered with a 5 suitable resilient material, is placed between the two lens members It and ii an absolutely sealed airchamberisprovided. jhsshowninll'lmhthe air chamber ll between Y said pairs of lens members, said frames being ring is formed entirely of rubber or some other suitable resilient material. I

In the form illustrated-in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 the frame at the outer, widest portion is open, or transversely split and is provided with a clamp- 5 ing meansv III for normally holding the edges of the frame'along the opening in abutting relation. The slide ll of the clamping means is operable to release the frame edge from abutting relation andpermit the frame to open for the easy in- 10 sertion or removal of the lens members.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 4 the frame 35 is provided with a seat or shelf 3.6 on which the lens members It and i1 and their spacing means rest. The frame 35 is made of one piece and a clamping frame 31 is utilized to hold the lens members in position. It'wiil be understood, that, in carrying the invention into practice, changes may .be made in the improvements described, without departing from the principle thereof..

I claim:

In the goggles, the combination of a wide soft rubber pad, provided with eye openings and adapted to efficiently and comfortably conform to the face of the wearer, light metal frames hinged together, said metal frames surrounding the eye openings and being secured to the pad, wide interior grooves formed in the frames at their outer portion remote from the pad, pairs of lens members fitted in the grooves, and spacing means seated in the grooves between said pairs of lens members to rigidly position the said pairs of lens members by engaging their adjacent surfaces throughout the perimeter of the groove, 5

said spacing means comprising a single complete metallic ring covered with resilient material,

thereby forming sealedair chambers between transversely split so as to permit them to open for the insertion or removal of said lens members and their spacing means, and clamping means for normally holding the edges of the frames alongv the transverse openings in abutting relation.

' CHARLES FISCHER. 

